Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

I don't want to die without any scars.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

We spend $3 trillion a year [on healthcare] and we're only getting sicker.

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.